Discoverers (Y3) | Aspire - Nurture

Welcome to Discoverers 2024-25

We are the Year 3 class at Warren Hills Community Primary School. Our teacher is Miss Bourne. Miss Thorpe supports us in class.

PE this term will be on a Thursday

Please ensure that your child has an indoor kit consisting of a white t-shirt, dark shorts and plimsolls and also an outdoor kit consisting of dark tracksuit bottoms or leggings, a white t-shirt and a pair of trainers. Please ensure that long hair is tied back, earrings must be removed (if your child cannot remove earrings themselves, please ensure that they are taken out before they come to school).

We Love Reading

In our class, we know how important reading is to help us learn and we follow a reading scheme in our school called Read, Write, Inc. We each have a home reading folder to bring our books home in every day and a yellow reading record. We enjoy reading at home and know how important it is to practise with our parents/carers regularly to help us become successful readers.

A note from the teacher: Please ensure that your child brings their home reading folder back to school every day and remember to enjoy spending some time listening to your child read each day.

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Spring 2 2024-25

Discover the marvellous mining society of Coalville. Learn about the different jobs down a mine and how dangerous it was! Visit Snibston Colliery and see a mine simulation. How good are your geography skills? Explore Coalville on a local map and see if you can use compass directions and grid references to find your way around.

Year 3 had a fantastic time visiting Snibston Colliery. They went on a tour of the colliery, became children of the dark and learnt about how Victorians washed the miners clothes.

Spring 1 2024-25

From nothingness came chaos; from chaos came air and water; from air and water came life. Then, rising majestically from the darkness, came Gaia, Mother Earth, a beacon of warmth and light. Discover a fantastical world full of mythical creatures and legendary heroes. Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis and Zeus reign almighty from Mount Olympus, watching mere mortals on dusty Athenian streets. Meet Theseus, the hero, and Helen of Troy, the beautiful face that launched a thousand ships. Explore the terrains of Greece, where in pure blue skies, the Sun scorches waxen wings and melts the fortunes of Icarus and Daedalus. Then decide your own fate when a mysterious box is found and stirs your curious mind.

Discoverers enjoyed looking at different Ancient Greek artefacts.

Autumn 2 2024-25

You’re an engineer, a scientist, a maker of men (iron men, of course). Explore the scientific world of forces and magnetism, metals and materials. Expand your mind as you test and trial, build and move. Which force is at play as you slide down a slide or swing on a swing? Can you explain why magnets repel and attract? Can you make a penny look shiny and new or build a steel band from pots and pans? Then, meet Hogarth the Iron Man’s companion. The Iron Man wants a friend. Can you build him one? You must make him strong, sturdy and ready to rumble. If you were a metal, which one would you be? Gold, a shimmering, precious and costly mineral? Or steel, that strong and useful alloy? Maybe you’re iron, malleable and easy to shape, but ready to rust. Maybe you’re not a metal at all, but a force to be reckoned with.

Year 3 enjoyed investigating push and pull forces on the gym equipment.

Autumn 1 2024-25

Take a moment to step outside and stand quietly and still. Turn off all your technology and try to forget the modern world. Imagine this place 5000 years ago. What would you have seen? Head back to prehistoric times to gather berries and hunt down dinner. Unearth ancient objects and visit astonishing mystical monuments that reveal the secrets of an ancient time. Learn how the people of Britain developed over thousands of years, from the Stone Age to the Roman invasion. What tribal tales will you have to tell?

Year 3 had a fantastic time at Creswell Crags!

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